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Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. All you need is a broadband connection and a current operating system (Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux). The service is legal and free of charge.

To watch live TV on your PC, simply download the Zattoo Player, register, and get channel-surfing! If you run into any problems, take a look at our FAQ section.

Where can I use Zattoo?

Zattoo is currently available in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. We’ll be launching in new countries and continents soon, so check back frequently.

Preparing for Installation

Before you can download the Zattoo player, you must register on the Zattoo web site . It's possible that Zattoo isn't available yet in your country -- the Zattoo web site will tell you if this is the case.

Now you need to make sure you have install adobe flash player.If you want to install this in hardy use the following command

I am running a 64 bit version of Ubuntu and cannot install the deb package available. SO I though well I should be able to build the app using the tarball….the instructions are not really that useful for doing this!

Anyone done this yet? If so what steps did you take, i.e. depend packages to install, sym links to create etc…

for 64 bit ubuntu you can force it to install using
sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture package.deb
then before you run it get the 32-bit libraries it requires using getlibs
getlibs /usr/bin/zattoo_player
(see this post about getlibs if you don’t have it already http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790)
After that it should run fine.

I have literally spent about 6 hours today trying to figure out how to make this work on my kubuntu hardy heron 64bit linux. I couldn’t get it to work with wine, or by forcing the architecture so I installed a chroot for a 32bit environment and still didn’t work with the most recent version of the software (3.20). I downgraded by installing the 3.11 beta release from a previous comment above and used it in the chroot environment and… voila, it finally works after endless hours spent on searching for various errors that it was giving me. I’m running Kubuntu so I didn’t have a lot of the gtk packages it uses so had to download them.

try running the 3.11 release, that’s my best advice, if you can’t get it to work I’ll get back to you with how I’ve done it. I look forward to a 64bit version and I’m sure I’m not the only one…

Zattoo is a great way to watch normal television on the internet… It’s possible to watch fool zattoo! With a vpn server… There are free vpn servers like cyberghost but I didn’t find a free uk server.. Anybody a free uk vpn server… And no… with just a proxy it’s not possible…

I found a strange way to get zattoo working under 64 bit hardy together with KDE.
First, i knew i was able to get it work on another 64 bit PC with GNOME, but when starting zattoo_player under KDE on my new laptop (64 bit hardy) it refuses to work, and in the zattoo errorlog there was an entry about the wrong ELF version for libqtengine.so.
As i said, i knew it worked on another system with gnome, so I installed the GNOME Desktop on my laptop and … it worked.
After switching back to KDE i didn’t expect zattoo to work here, but when trying zattoo_player …. it worked!!!!!!
So, if you have problems in getting it run under KDE (64 bit system) you might have to install the GNOME Desktop, run zattoo_player once under GNOME, switch back to KDE start zattoo_player.